Romance Fiction

The material in this collection was published for the female reader. While its core is a group of several thousand Harlequin Romances, other popular romance novelists such as Barbara Cartland are also included. While not as well represented, there are holdings of gothic novels, flapper novels, and romantic serials sold in chapter installments, including The Crossroads of Love, The Amazing Story of Lucy Hale, and The Great Sacrifice, among with many representative nineteenth-century domestic romances.

As with other collections, Women's Fiction is supported by a large number of pulps and magazines. A good sample of love story pulps (1922-1948), confession, movie, and romance magazines from the 1940's to the present is available. Several dozen Romance comic book titles are included in the Comic Art Collection.

Special Collections Division

Michigan State University Libraries